The Duchess is very happy with how the new pergola has turned out, even before we have finished furnishing it. Rugs and lighting still to come but here is a taste of where we will be spending most of the Summer (well the 30% of days it isn’t a howling gale cos Wellington)

Just call me Daisy. (Better that than Foreskin)

I suspect Dad choreographed one of the dances on this week’s Strictly Come Dancing…

I have been at my new workplace for 3 weeks now and made good progress in getting up to speed in every way but one – their coffee machine.

They have a manual coffee maker that I haven’t used since my Fronde days in 2012, and it has been a struggle to make a half decent coffee. The milk frother screams at me – and the open plan office – whenever I try to heat up some milk like a demon escaping from Hell.

It doesn’t help that my teammates are experts and make barista grade flat whites every time.

Thankfully today I managed to get it about right, enough to take it to my colleague for inspection, who rated it a decent 4/10. I will take that!